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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 01, 2022 **False Christians were brought in. They slipped in as spies to learn about the freedom Christ Jesus gives us. They hoped to find a way to control us.** **- Galatians 2:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Don't let legalistic so-called believers put you under the law again.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 02, 2022 **Certainly, there is a curse on all who rely on their own efforts to live according to a set of standards because Scripture says, "Whoever doesn't obey everything that is written in Moses' Teachings is cursed."** **- Galatians 3:10 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The law cannot save us...only Jesus can.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 03, 2022 **Those of you who try to earn God's approval by obeying His laws have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen out of God's favor.** **- Galatians 5:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The way to God is through Jesus and Jesus alone.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 04, 2022 **You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don't turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love.** **- Galatians 5:13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Freedom from the law doesn't excuse you from sinning.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 05, 2022 **For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.** **- Galatians 5:17 (New International Version (©1984))** **The war within us never ceases. You must choose which side to obey.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 06, 2022 **We can't allow ourselves to get tired of living the right way. Certainly, each of us will receive [everlasting life] at the proper time, if we don't give up.** **- Galatians 6:9 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **No matter how many times you fail keep striving to live holy.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 07, 2022 **Certainly, it doesn't matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.** **- Galatians 6:15 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If you haven't been reborn in the spirit nothing you do in the physical realm will get you to heaven.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 08, 2022 **Before the creation of the world, He chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in His presence.** **- Ephesians 1:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **You are no accident. God knew you before the earth was even made.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 09, 2022 **Because you are God's children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into us to call out, "Abba! Father!"** **- Galatians 4:6 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Good fathers are wonderful but our Daddy in heaven in the best!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 10, 2022 **Through the blood of His Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of His overflowing kindness.** **- Ephesians 1:7 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Never forget what His divine Blood has done for us!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 11, 2022 **He planned to bring all of history to its goal in Christ. Then Christ would be the head of everything in heaven and on earth.** **- Ephesians 1:10 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The whole point of EVERYTHING is Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 12, 2022 **I pray that the glorious Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know Christ better.** **- Ephesians 1:17 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Are you striving to know Jesus more and more?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 13, 2022 **God has put everything under the control of Christ. He has made Christ the head of everything for the good of the church.** **- Ephesians 1:22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Jesus is above all...not Buddha, not Mohammed, not anybody but Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 14, 2022 **The church is Christ's body and completes Him as He fills everything in every way.** **- Ephesians 1:23 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **We really are part of Jesus' body. What a privilege!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 15, 2022 **You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God.** **- Ephesians 2:2 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Don't judge so quickly those who you were like not too long ago. Love them.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 16, 2022 **We were dead because of our failures, but He made us alive together with Christ. (It is God's kindness that saved you.)** **- Ephesians 2:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Real life is found in Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 17, 2022 **God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God.** **- Ephesians 2:8 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **To think that we had or can have any part in gaining our salvation is an insult to God.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 18, 2022 **God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that He has prepared for us to do.** **- Ephesians 2:10 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God does have a plan for your life. Search it out and fulfill it.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 19, 2022 **But now through Christ Jesus you, who were once far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.** **- Ephesians 2:13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If not for Jesus' Blood we would never have come to God.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 20, 2022 **He brought an end to the commandments and demands found in Moses' Teachings so that he could take Jewish and non-Jewish people and create one new humanity in himself. So he made peace.** **- Ephesians 2:15 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Those who put their faith in Christ become a new kind of human!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 21, 2022 **He came with the Good News of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near.** **- Ephesians 2:17 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Jesus came to save everyone...you just have to say yes.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 22, 2022 **You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.** **- Ephesians 2:20 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God is building a new temple for Himself to dwell in and we are it's building blocks.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 23, 2022 **Through him you, also, are being built in the Spirit together with others into a place where God lives.** **- Ephesians 2:22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God won't live in buildings because He wants to live in YOU.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 24, 2022 **I became a servant of this Good News through God's kindness freely given to me when his power worked [in me].** **- Ephesians 3:7 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **You don't call yourself to the ministry...God does.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 25, 2022 **A Child will be born for us. A Son will be given to us. The government will rest on His shoulders. He will be named: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.** **- Isaiah 9:6 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **As we open Christmas presents, don't forget the best present of all...JESUS! Happy Birthday Jesus!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 26, 2022 **We can go to God with bold confidence through faith in Christ.** **- Ephesians 3:12 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **What Jesus did makes it possible for us to approach the Almighty without fear.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 27, 2022 **Then Christ will live in you through faith. I also pray that love may be the ground into which you sink your roots and on which you have your foundation.** **- Ephesians 3:17 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The most important thing you can demonstrate as a Christian isn't knowledge or miracles but rather love.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 28, 2022 **You will know Christ's love, which goes far beyond any knowledge. I am praying this so that you may be completely filled with God.** **- Ephesians 3:19 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Don't just seek to know about God but also seek to be like Him.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 29, 2022 **Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power He can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.** **- Ephesians 3:20 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Are you letting God's power transform you day by day?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 30, 2022 **God's favor has been given to each of us. It was measured out to us by Christ who gave it.** **- Ephesians 4:7 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Without the favor that Jesus granted us we would have no hope.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - December 31, 2022 **This is to continue until all of us are united in our faith and in our knowledge about God's Son, until we become mature, until we measure up to Christ, who is the standard.** **- Ephesians 4:13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If our goal isn't to be more like Jesus we're missing it.**